Columbus and His First Voyage
A History in Documents
Seiten
2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-7682-5 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-7682-5 (ISBN)
What happened on Columbus’s first voyage across the Atlantic? Who was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do we know? These questions were debated in the courts of Spain for decades after 1492. Some of those who sailed with Columbus left very different accounts, as recorded in those trial records. Their competing voices have long been silenced by the deafening crescendo of Columbus’s own narrative—a narrative riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies that beg to be explained. This documentary history allows the reader to encounter the founding documents of the Columbus story as well as the voices that dared to challenge it—even in his own day. What these documents reveal forces us to re-imagine Columbus and his voyage in surprising ways.
Columbus and His First Voyage brings together for the first time the two contemporary versions of what happened on the first voyage – the Columbian narrative and the Pinzón narrative – and embeds them in a thorough introduction to Columbus, his first voyage, and the myths that surround this pivotal event in the history of the modern world.
Columbus and His First Voyage brings together for the first time the two contemporary versions of what happened on the first voyage – the Columbian narrative and the Pinzón narrative – and embeds them in a thorough introduction to Columbus, his first voyage, and the myths that surround this pivotal event in the history of the modern world.
James E. Wadsworth is Professor of History at Stonehill College, USA. He is the author of Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil (2007) and In Defence of the Faith: Joaquim Marques de Araujo, A Brazilian Comissario in the Age of Inquisitional Decline (2013).
List of Illustrations
Introduction for Instructors
Contextual Timeline
Timeline of Columbus and His First Voyage
1. Columbus: The Man of Myth, the Man of History
2. The Capitulations of Santa Fé and Granada, 1492
3. Journal of the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus
4. The Letters of Christopher Columbus Announcing His Discoveries
5. Testimonies from the Columbian Law Suits
Glossary
Notes
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.10.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 15 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 313 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4742-7682-2 / 1474276822 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4742-7682-5 / 9781474276825 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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